AIB
Building Research & Education Foundation
The Australian Institute
of Building Research and Education Foundation was established
in 1968 under a trust deed between Jennings Industries (Australia)
Ltd. and a number of senior AIB members as the first trustees. The
purpose of the Foundation is to promote and encourage research in
the science and practice of building and to facilitate the exchange
of related information. The Foundation has its own website at:
Under the terms of the
trust deed projects may be considered for funding if they fall within
the following categories:
- To encourage and assist
research into any matter of concern to the profession of Building
and make known the nature and merits of the results of any research
which may seem capable of being used by persons engaged in the
profession of Building.
- To encourage the discovery
of and investigate and make known the nature and merits of the
results of any research which may seem capable of being used by
persons engaged in the profession of Building.
- To establish, form,
furnish and maintain libraries, museums and laboratories devoted
to the arts and sciences and practice of Building.
- To encourage the study
of the arts and sciences of Building and to improve and elevate
the general and technical knowledge of persons engaged or intending
to engage in the profession of Building and for such purposes
to donate prizes or other awards or distinctions and institute
and establish scholarships, grants and other benefactions.
- To institute, promote,
establish or support or aid in the institution, promotion, establishment
or support of any associations or institutions in any way connected
with the purposes of the foundation or of chairs and lectureships
in any university, college, institution of learning or otherwise
and to subsidise or assist the teaching of any subjects relating
to the profession of Building and kindred matters, arts and sciences
or tending to further the purposes of the fund or any of them.
Awards have been granted
for overseas research visits, research into specific subjects nominated
by the AIB Council and the
production of books.
AIB and academoc staff
members seeking grants from the Foundation should forward details
of the proposed project to the AIB Chief Executive Officer of the
AIB for submission to the Trustees. Each application is judged on
its merits and the value it has in furthering the practice and science
of Building.
|
|
|
